Partner gets 16 years for horrific attack on woman

A MAN repeatedly beat his partner with a variety of weapons, throttled her, ripped her clothes off, bit a chunk off her ear, and rubbed her face in a cat litter tray and tried to make her eat it, a court has heard.

- JASON EVANS

Swansea Crown Court heard that when 29-year-old Warlow - who has a history of beating up partners - was arrested by police he claimed his victim had attacked him because he wouldn’t have sex with her and that he had been acting in self-defence.

The woman was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff where doctors found a catalogue of injuries including a jaw broken on both sides, six fractured ribs, a fractured spine, multiple wounds to the liver, a deformed right ear with the top missing and a traumatic injury to the knee.

The court heard the woman has been left suffering with tinnitus, a deformed ear, chipped teeth and with no feeling in her face from the bridge of her nose down her neck due to nerve damage which is likely to be permanent.

Handing the defendant an extended sentence as a dangerous offender, a judge described the way he treated the woman as “sadistic” and “horrific beyond words"

Craig Jones, prosecuting, told the court that Warlow and the complainant had been in a relationship for a matter of weeks at the time of the assault, the pair having met in the Wetherspoons pub where the woman worked.

He said on June 28 this year the couple were at the woman’s house where Warlow was consuming vodka to “bring himself down” from the cocaine he had previous consumed.

He said when the woman made to leave the property to meet up with a group of other mothers the defendant grabbed her and dragged her onto the floor and removed one of her shoes.

The court heard this was to be the beginning of a prolonged assault on the woman which would last around 45 minutes.

The prosecutor said Warlock struck the woman “over and over and over again” and ripped her clothes off before jumping on her head as she lay curled up on the floor and then repeatedly kicking her to the head.